miniquad VS emerald

Compare miniquad vs emerald and see what are their differences.

miniquad

Cross platform rendering in Rust (by not-fl3)

emerald

A 2D rust game engine focused on portability. (by Bombfuse)
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miniquad emerald
12 7
1,383 556
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8.0 4.2
1 day ago about 2 months ago
Rust Rust
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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miniquad

Posts with mentions or reviews of miniquad. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-22.
  • OpenGL crates: gl vs glow vs glium
    3 projects | /r/rust | 22 Mar 2023
    You also have Miniquad which is a very cool minimal graphics project. It has almost zero dependencies (only system ones), and compiles under 2 seconds to give you a window with OpenGL on all platforms including mobile very easily. It has a wrapper graphics API but it doesn't try to be modeled after OpenGL at all (after all it might support Metal in the future), so it's gonna be quite different doing your project in it, but it's still the same kind of low level graphics.
  • Please suggest high quality render library
    3 projects | /r/rust_gamedev | 23 Jun 2022
    Theirs also https://github.com/asny/three-d or https://github.com/not-fl3/miniquad. Or lower level ones like WGPU or GLOW.
  • Is there a way to use piston with wasm?
    10 projects | /r/rust_gamedev | 9 Jan 2022
    In that same rust game jam the second most used engine was macroquad, which was used by 3 games, two of which are playable in the browser. Macroquad is a cross-platform game library inspired by raylib. Macroquad is built on top of miniquad. I think macroquad is a bit more approachable than bevy since macroquad doesn't impose an ECS and tries to be minimal with its features so they are available in all of the platforms it targets.
  • Rust alternative for PyGame ?
    10 projects | /r/rust | 2 Jan 2022
    (miniquad is a lower level lib https://github.com/not-fl3/miniquad - both miniquad and good-web-game is built on top of it)
  • Tetris Livecoding stream #3: Rendering with SDL2
    1 project | /r/rust | 26 Dec 2021
    Nice! Would love to see the same thing done with miniquad though.
  • Show HN: Life Simulation Written in Rust
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Nov 2021
    Looks like it won't work out of the box, unfortunately, since {macro,mini}quad doesn't support a custom X11 parent window :-(

    But I've opened an issue upstream to track functionality in the renderer that would allow this[1].

    [1]: https://github.com/not-fl3/miniquad/issues/250

  • Question about rust graphics libraries
    4 projects | /r/rust | 25 Jun 2021
  • Rust, For GameDev
    8 projects | dev.to | 8 Jun 2021
    Single command deploy for both WASM and Android build instructions
  • Minimal graphics crate for Rust
    12 projects | /r/rust | 26 Apr 2021
    Hi, I am using macroquad. There is an issue with `window_reizable` property. In my archlinux, this property doesn't work when set to `false`. Then I saw here that it is used only for windows. If I am correct, could you let me know the reason for this? Thanks
  • Modern and lightweight 2d graphics engine
    4 projects | /r/rust_gamedev | 17 Feb 2021
    If you want to write your own shaders: miniquad.

emerald

Posts with mentions or reviews of emerald. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-08.
  • Hey Rustaceans, Harvest Hero Origins has just released, written in rust!
    3 projects | /r/rust | 8 Feb 2022
    [dependencies] emerald = { git = "https://github.com/Bombfuse/emerald", branch = "master", default-features = false, features = [ "physics", "aseprite"] } inline_tweak = { version = "1.0.8" } futures = { version = "0.3.18", optional = true } lazy_static = { version = "1.4.0", optional = true } flume = { version = "0.10.9", optional = true } bytemuck = "1.7.3" steamworks = { git = "https://github.com/Bombfuse/steamworks-rs", branch = "master", optional = true } image = { version = "0.23.14", default-features=false, features = ["png"] }
    1 project | /r/rust_gamedev | 8 Feb 2022
    Now for the rusty bits, the game is written on top of Emerald which is built on top of various rust gamedev libs. This community has been amazing and extremely helpful throughout the development process, I wouldn't have gotten this far without you, thank you!
  • i want to make an 2d game.
    3 projects | /r/rust | 8 Feb 2022
    Here's another one: https://github.com/Bombfuse/emerald
  • Is there a way to use piston with wasm?
    10 projects | /r/rust_gamedev | 9 Jan 2022
    Emerald engine that aims to be cross platform and can target WASM. Emerald is built over miniquad which is what macroquad is built over.
  • status of wasm32 support in existing game frameworks/engines
    6 projects | /r/rust_gamedev | 22 Nov 2021
    Emerald: This is a recent game engine that uses miniquad and kira for audio.
  • Been working on an arcade style game in rust for a while, check it out!
    1 project | /r/rust_gamedev | 1 Aug 2021
    Been working on this for a few months, the game is built on top of Emerald, a game engine I'm writing to be as portable as possible. Wishlist the game on steamto be notified on release, aiming to release sometime this September!

What are some alternatives?

When comparing miniquad and emerald you can also consider the following projects:

macroquad - Cross-platform game engine in Rust.

harvey - A distributed operating system

rust-sfml - SFML bindings for Rust

brutal - 🏢 An operating system inspired by brutalist design that combines the ideals of UNIX from the 1970s with modern technology and engineering

raylib - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming

Oxygengine - Rust implementation of Oxygen Core HTML5 game engine

pixels - A tiny hardware-accelerated pixel frame buffer. 🦀

DigEscape - A game written in Rust, compilable to webbassembly

vulkano-examples - Examples of using vulkano

oneOS - oneOS - an operating system targeting x86 and ARMv7 [Moved to: https://github.com/oneOS-Project/oneOS]

ggez - Rust library to create a Good Game Easily

bevy - A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust